Yo, today's QLD has what you don't deal with will eventually deal with you. Here we go

Welcome back to the quote of the day show I'm your hope Sean Crox and the Sean Crox and

calm. We got Simon T Bailey on this show today and he's going to show you how you can become

your very best self by doing three things. Number one, claiming whatever it is that you want.

Number two, accepting rejection as redirection and also letting go of what is no longer working.

Simon T Bailey is coming up. A lot of my work over the last few years has been around this whole

concept of brilliance. Everybody say Simon says I am brilliant. Now we're going to say it again with

power feeling conviction. I know it's early in the morning. I want you to use your outdoor voice

indoor. Find your inner Hutzpah and on three says Simon says I am brilliant. One two three.

All right, turn to your neighbor and say I'm brilliant but I'm a little concerned about you, okay?

I am brilliant. Which one of y'all kicked me, all right? So when I first started writing and

talking about brilliance, I based it on some of the research work of Dr. Howard Gardner who is

professor of education at Harvard. Dr. Gardner, he is a senior researcher. He's in an interesting

study over 20 plus year period and what they discovered is that children up into the age of four

are operating at the genius level. The same group of children were studied in their early 20s and

only 10 percent were still operating at the genius or what I call the brilliance level. And in

their late 20s, early 30s, only 2 percent were still operating at the genius or brilliance level.

So the question that you have like I had, oh brilliant one, you do know that you're sitting next

old brilliant one, right? Just look at your neighbor and say good morning, no brilliant one, good morning.

Somebody said I'm glad you finally recognized. You may be slow with your worth waiting on.

So the question you have like I had is where did the genius of brilliance go? It didn't go anywhere

but it became buried by society that says color within the line, sit down, give it back, you can't

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